Conference Report on TEDD & 3R Workshop at ZHAW Waedenswil.

Biocatalysis - Key Technology to Meet Global Challenges CCBIO Symposium at the 8th Waedenswil Day of Life Science.

In a world of dwindling fossil-based energy, global air pollution and warming, biocatalysis may be a perfect problem-solver. It has the potential to procure sustainable raw materials and energy from biomass, and enables chiral and highly functionalized compounds to be produced ecologically for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry. At ZHAW Waedenswil on June 20, 2016, the Competence Center f...

7th Waedenswil Day of Chemistry Personalized Medicine: Full Speed Ahead!

The aim of Personalized Medicine in disease treatment and prevention is to take account of the individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle for each person. This approach is applied to certain tumours but is still not common for most diseases. On June 18, 2015 the TEDD network (Tissue Engineering for Drug Development and Substance Testing) invited a total of 130 academic and indus...

ECIR WORKSHOP REPORT Report on the 5th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval

This workshop report presents the output of the fifth Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR) workshop, which has been co-located with the 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2017) in Aberdeen, UK. We motivate our workshop and outline the papers (one keynote, six regular papers and five poster papers) presented at BIR 2017. Finally, we conclude with an outlook and ...

How to Work Collaboratively Within the Health System: Workshop Summary and Facilitator Reflection

Effectiveness in health services research requires development of specific knowledge and skills for working in partnership with health system decision-makers. In an initial effort to frame capacity-building activities for researchers, we designed a workshop on working collaboratively within the health system. The workshop, based on recent research exploring health syste...

Report on First Iranian International Conference on Women’s Health Held June 14-15, 2012 in Shiraz, Iran